A page on wheat being separated from chaff. As long as I’m on the subject, here’s an article on farming in ancient Egypt.
Month: September 2003
New links I happened upon
Gian Trotta’s list of online editing resources. Among the intriguing links: Sun Microsystems’ online style guide, which has tons of tips for Web writers and editors. Edit-Work, a site for online editors. The site hasn’t been updated in ages but…
Good news
… For Bill Walsh, soon to be the new National Desk copy chief at the Washington Post. Bill was one of the first newsies I met online and one of the people who inspired me to instigate online shenanigans. (I’m…
What I did for fun yesterday
Took lots of pictures of appealing (and appalling) stuff done to cars.
Side Salad …
… has new digs.
Re: High Holy Days
Here’s a link.
For all you weekend car freaks
Watch out for pythons under the hood!
Fun weekend reading
Think about being fired upon in a foreign country next time you’re grousing about what a pain those reporters are.
Financial Times online boss interviewed
She says they’ll pay for news if it’s specific to their needs, and that most of their news goes on the Web first, then gets followed in the paper.
Former copy editor named Merc publisher
Chip Visci did most of his editorial work at the Detroit Free Press … he’s been a Knight Ridder exec for the past few years.